A Sketch-and-Spray Interface for Modeling Trees

  • Authors:
  • M Nordin Zakaria;Siti Rokhmah Shukri

  • Affiliations:
  • Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia;Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia

  • Venue:
  • SG '07 Proceedings of the 8th international symposium on Smart Graphics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We introduce in this paper an interface for modeling botanical trees that we term a sketch-and-spray interface. In using the interface, a user would sketch out various types of strokes to construct the main structures of a tree. A user could use a branch stroke to draw a single branch, a leaf stroke to draw a single leaf or a stem of leaves, or a copy stroke to draw a whole branch together with all its sub-branches and leaves. A user could also use various editing strokes to modify the tree structure. Finally, a user could spray particles upon it to `grow' the overall shape of the tree. We illustrate the utility of our interface using a number of examples throughout this paper.